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Billed As "Azusa St.
East" a grand celebration of the G.B. Cashwell revival in Dunn, NC will convene
December 31, 2006 - January 3, 2007. For more information, view
this pdf file. Available at
this unique conference will be a Falcon Historical Coverlet. This beautiful
centennial coverlet was commissioned by The Culbreth Memorial Pentecostal
Holiness Church, Falcon, NC, and created by We Love Country. It is 100%
cotton, two-layered, Jacquard woven in the USA, preshrunk, color fast, and
machine washable. It measure approximately 46 x 68 inches and is fringed on all
four sides. Seven scenes from Falcon are featured. Two colors currently
available are black and cream, burgundy and cream. These throws/afghans will be
available for sale at The Harvest Train Celebration on November 21st and during
The Azusa Street East Celebration. At other times, they will be available at the
N.C. Conference or contact
Mrs. Betty Thompson, PO Box 9, Falcon, NC 28342,
910-980-1171 (ph). Click on the image for a larger image.

The
family of Rev. H. P. Robinson invites you to visit the web site that honors and
shares his life and ministry. The site will primarily feature his sermons and
books that span the more than 30 years of his ministry. Other items of
interest on the site include a photo gallery, interesting facts about his life,
and eventually, audio clips of his preaching. It will be a work in progress with
sermons and other material being added monthly. Visit the site at
www.hprobinson.com

Upcoming
Centennial Celebrations: December 31, 2006 - January 2, 2007 in Dunn, North
Carolina. This celebrates the revival led by G.B. Cashwell that brought the
Azusa St. Revival to the Pentecostal Holiness Church, the Fire-Baptized Holiness
Church and what is now the Pentecostal Free-Will Baptist Church. For more
information, contact conference archivist Mrs. Betty Thompson at
mountgirlb@aol.com In 2010, the
South Carolina Conference will celebrate its centennial. For more information,
contact conference archivists Ref. H. Larry Jones at
hlj3737637@aol.com

The IPHC
Archives & Research Center will sponsor a lunch during the
IPHC General Conference in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, July 27, from 12
noon to 2pm. I hope you will plan to join us for this important event. If you
have not registered for the conference or our lunch in particular you can do so
online by going to
http://www.iphc.org/gencon/registeronline.html If you need a print
registration form, please contact Ms. Erica Rutland at (405) 787-7110 x 3132 or
Erica@iphc.org
We have ordered a good meal for the
Archives lunch and our keynote speaker will be Dr. David Roebuck. Dr. Roebuck is
the official historian of the Church of God (Cleveland, TN). He will be
illustrating connections of IPHC to the famous Azusa St. 1906
Revival by looking at
the ministry of G.B. Cashwell. Our Guest of Honor will be
Bishop W.E. Fuller, Jr., who heads the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church of God of
the Americas, Inc.
The official
centennial for the Azusa St. Revival will be held April 25-29,
2006. Information and updates about this historic event may be found at
http://www.azusastreet100.net/
Bishop James D. Leggett serves on one of the planning
committees that is sponsoring this event that is supported by the Pentecostal
World Conference and the Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches of North America (PCCNA).
Professor Cecil M. Robeck from Fuller Theological Seminary and I are responsible
for a theology track that has already confirmed speakers from around the world
who have been impacted by the Azusa St. Revival.
The IPHC Archives & Research Center booth at
the General Conference will reveal many of the IPHC connections to the Azusa St.
Revival. In terms of geography, the impact on IPHC was from coast to coast with
some revivals that have now faded from memory like that in Lamont, OK. We will
also have on hand a display of resources about the Azusa St. Revival itself.
These materials will be useful in informing persons in your conference who will
want to travel to Los Angeles for the centennial celebration.
We are also hoping to feature at our booth a
complete set of the Pentecostal Holiness Advocates on dvds. This is a
joint project with the Assemblies of God Archives.
We invite you to come early this July
to OKC to visit the IPHC Archives & Research Center. We would like for you to
see our vault, closed stacks, reading room, specialized
scanner, and so on. However, it must be remembered that we start work on
our booth on Monday morning, July 25 and will remain downtown through the entire
week.

April, 2005: The IPHC Archives & Research Center
recently acquired a Minolta PS 7000. This specialized equipment will allow us to
digitize rare IPHC periodicals like the Holiness Advocates, Apostolic
Evangels, Live Coals of Fire and Live Coals. Here is a photo
of the scanner:
Of course, we have long had a few of these documents on the IPHC Archives web at
http://pctii.org/arc/resources.html

Thinking in the
Spirit: Theologies of the Early Pentecostal Movement (Indiana University
Press, 2003) by Douglas Jacobsen includes sections on J.H. King and G.F. Taylor.

March, 2004: The
IPHC Archives & Research Center initiated a project with the
Assemblies of God Archives that will
digitize the entire run of Pentecostal Holiness Advocates (1917-1997).
Dr. Harold D. Hunter delivered duplicates of our bound originals to Springfield,
MO on February 27, 2004. Updates about our progress will be reported here. In
the meantime, samples are temporarily available
here.

We are delighted to report
donations from Rev. Noel Brooks in the United Kingdom.

Please
note that William T. Purinton finished his Ph.D. dissertation at Trinity
Evangelical Divinity School in May, 2003 titled "Joseph Hillery King's
View and Use of Scripture in the Holiness/Pentecostal Context." Thanks to
Dr. Purinton for sending a copy of the dissertation from his current
location in Korea.

July
9, 2001: An original copy of the 1900 document titled "Constitution and General
Rules of the Fire-Baptized Holiness Association of America" was donated by Mr.
Frank D. Myers. This rare item was passed on to Mr. Myers from his grandfather,
William Ambrose Miller. Mr. Miller lived less than two miles from Olmitz, Iowa,
the founding site of the FBHA in 1895. A
digital copy readable by Adobe Acrobat Reader
is available for download (3.5 meg).

Mrs.
Harrison H. Valentine is the first member of the
IPHC
Heritage Society for the 2001-2005 Quadrennium. Mrs. Valentine was quickly followed with
renewals from Mrs. Ruby Alcorn and Mr. & Mrs. Phillip A. Mooring. The most
recent donors of materials are Rev. David Stephens, Mrs. Dovie Clark, Mr.
Glennard Quesenberry, and Rev. Carl Sexton.

Tulsa,
OK, March 9, 2001: Five boxes of materials belonging to Bishop Dan T. Muse have
been held at the Oral Roberts University
Archives for several years. Dr. William Jernigan, Dean of Learning Resources at
ORU, released these boxes of original materials from Bishop Muse to Dr. Harold
Hunter to be housed in the IPHC Archives & Research Center. Our appreciation
extends to Dr. Harold Paul who oversaw the care of the Muse papers these many
years. A return visit was made April 23 to pick up three boxes of books from the personal
library of Bishop Muse.

Early figures from the
Fire-Baptized Holiness Church and the Pentecostal Holiness Church are mentioned
in "Pentecostalism in India: An Overview" by Dr. Stanley M. Burgess in
the Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies
4:1 (January 2001).
The
Heritage of Faith: an Historical Evaluation of the Holiness Movement in America,
a 1983 M.A. thesis by Craig Charles Fankhauser, includes a chapter on the
Fire-Baptized Holiness Church. Writing on Nora Chambers in the Winter 2001 edition of Lee
University Torch, Dr. Charles W. Conn points out that Nora Chambers, the
first teacher when the Church of God [Cleveland] Bible school was launched in
1918, had been a student at Holmes Bible School in Altamont, South Carolina.

Anyone wishing to see our experiment on providing a searchable
online inventory, can go to LibraryCom.
Enter the library name as "iphcarc" and login as a guest. Once inside
LibraryCom, do a sample search for "Synan." The complete list of
entries at this point can be see by selecting the Expert tab, then select
"Record_#" from the first field of choices then enter
"1-100" in the blank box then click the Expert button at the bottom of
the page. Our familiar, complete online inventory
was updated February 23, 2001.

The famed A.B.
Butler collection of rare IPHC original publications is now available at
the IPHC Archives and Research Center. A variety of other early IPHC
publications have also been received of late.

The Oral History
Project was initiated February 22, 2001 with a videotape interview of Rev. Jack
D. Goodson. Available for a limited time was a clip from the interview.

On display during
the December 2000 meeting of the American
Academy of Religion was a book on pneumatology by Professor Donald
Bloesch. Bloesch acknowledges the contribution to the Pentecostal Movement
of the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church from at least 1895.

Dr. Harold D.
Hunter is now serving as webmaster for the official web of the Society
for Pentecostal Studies. The primary pages are being redesigned, but
many content pages and a bulletin board are available now.

Rev. C.E. Means personally delivered four boxes of IPHC materials to the
center. Rev. Carl Sexton,
Conference Archivist, donated histories of various local churches in the
Upper South Carolina Conference. Aberlene Thomas donated a 1919 picture
of the Leaksville-Spray [NC] PHC. Publications by Leon M. Bridges have
also been received recently from California.

Mrs. Sue Parker
quickly sent to us materials from the centennial celebration of the
Sandford (NC) Pentecostal Holiness Church. Of particular value is the
pictorial review of the congregation's journey.

We
have a manuscript titled "Other Sheep" dated January 8, 1945
prepared for publication by Irene Snell-Winward. This chronicles the
author's service as a missionary in India for the PHC. Let us know if you
can help us locate a member of this family

Mr. Jonathan Baer spent the first week of August with us
doing research on healing for a Ph.D. dissertation at Yale University.

The
Society
for Pentecostal Studies met March 16-18, 2000 at Northwest
College. Highlights related to IPHC include the public affirmation of
the IPHC Archives & Research Center by Dr. David Bundy. Paper
presenters included Dr. Vinson Synan who announced a forthcoming article
on G.F. Taylor. Dr. Douglas Jacobson presented a paper that singled out
G.F. Taylor and J.H. King. Directors of pentecostal archivists met to plan
a seminar in connection with the Pentecostal
World Conference in Los Angeles. All IPHC Conference Archivists will
be encouraged to participate in this seminar.

Congratulations
to Marlene Bartlett, Church Historian, for completing a manuscript
entitled "The First Pentecostal Holiness Church [Goldsboro, NC]:
Church History 1999."

An important work
by Willis Collins Hoover, a seminal figure in Chilean Pentecostalism, is
now available in English thanks to Mario G. Hoover, a grandson of W.C.
Hoover. Titled History of the Pentecostal Revival in Chile, the
English edition adds much material to the original 1930 publication in
Spanish. Orders can be placed at Amazon
or directly to Mario G. Hoover.
Visit the web by thePentecostal
Methodist Church of Chile. The web page describing their
history includes reference to their affiliation with IPHC.

Visit the IPHC Timeline. Commentary
for this timeline written by Dr. Harold D. Hunter is also linked by sections from various
timeline entries. Also available is general information and links to online sources that
reveal aspects of life in 1898.

Dr. Harold D.
Hunter accepted an invitation from the Evangelical Theological Seminary in
Osijek, Croatia, to serve as an external reader. The current thesis under
review is titled "The Ukrainian Pentecostal Churches' View on
Sanctification Compared to the New Testament Teaching."

Check
out the marvelous web devoted to Rev.
Walter L. Smith, former superintendent of the Missouri Conference,
managed by Walter L. Smith, Jr. The site boosts pictures and audio files
of singing by Rev. Smith and Mr. Irvin Smith.

December
6, 1999: Pastor Shuk Yi, Li from the Pentecostal Holiness Church, Inc.
Hong Kong arrived today. Pastor Li has been sent by Rev. Donavan Ng to
research the history of IPHC in Hong Kong.

TIME CAPSULES! An idea whose time
has come. In view of the turn of a century along with a new millennium, IPHC Conferences
are encouraged to take on such a project this year. Internet search engines provide basic information on most aspects
of putting together a Time Capsule.

Dr. Harold D. Hunter met
with Bishop MacDaniel Preston on March 23, 1999 in Reidsville, North Carolina. Bishop
Preston is president of the Greater International Pentecostal Holiness Church, Inc. with
headquarters in Martinsville, Virginia. This African-American body of 13 congregations
accounting for more than 6,000 members trace their origins back to the IPHC. Much thanks
to Dr. Daniel Woods for his assistance in making this connection.

Living in tornado alley, the IPHC Archives & Research Center
has to plan seriously for disaster. It is for this reason that original microfilms of some
of the more important IPHC documents are housed in an underground vault at the Vital Records center operated by Dataplex in Flora, Mississippi. Dr. Harold
D. Hunter recently toured the facility to verify that all our records were in order.

In March of 1999, the official archives for the IPHC,
Church of God (Cleveland) and Assemblies of God began implementing a policy of exchanging
duplicates. This provides a wider audience for valuable materials while providing some
security against a total loss at any given location.

Visit the web by the Pentecostal
Methodist Church of Chile. The page describing their history includes reference to
their affiliation with IPHC. At the moment, the web has only Spanish text, but an English
version is coming. Meanwhile, those who can not read Spanish should consider using a web
translator like that mentioned below.

Dr. Daniel Woods reported in June, 1999 that the new volume entitled Pentecostal Currents in American Protestantism
(Eerdmans, 1999) edited by Edith Blumhofer, Russell Spitler, and Grant Wacker includes
historical references to IPHC.

May 5, 1999: This morning, Bishop James Leggett issued
the following statement to the IPHC RDC in Oklahoma City: "As
you know by now, numbers of church members on the south side of the city have been hit.
Some of them have lost everything. I saw one of our members being interviewed on T. V.
last night. She is the pianist at one of our churches. They came back to their home after
the storm to find it was no longer there. A reporter for New York Times was also
interviewing her and her husband." It was later reported that 30 homes belonging to
IPHC members were completely destroyed and one IPHC family perished in the tornado that
reached a record 318 miles an hour.

The national media have not said much about Feed the Children, but they have been in the
lead from the beginning. Larry Jones sent several trucks around town, especially
television stations, to get needed items for the disaster victims. He was one of the first
to get the message out Monday night that they would get help those affected by the
disaster.

The IPHC
headquarters in Bethany suffered no damage and Diaster Relief USA is raising money now
to assist those in need. The IPHC Heartland Conference is directly involved in providing
recovery services. I personally benefited from advance warning on my computer provided by
KWTV's Storm Signal.

ATTENTIONAll IPHC Conference Archivists and
Local Church Archivists: A one-day workshop was held March 11, 1999 in
Springfield, Missouri for pentecostal and charismatic archivists. Hosted by the Flower
Pentecostal Heritage Center, the meeting was jointly organized by Dr. David Roebuck,
Director of the Dixon Pentecostal Research Center (Church of God), Rev. Wayne Warner,
Director of the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center, and Dr. Harold D. Hunter, Director of
the IPHC Archives and Research Center.

At least 32 persons took part in the days proceedings that started at 9am and
concluded at 5pm the same day. The meeting attracted a wide range of pentecostal groups
and four IPHC Conference Archivists: Rev. Carl Sexton, Upper South Carolina; Rev. Paul
Oxley, Georgia Conference; Rev. Larry Jones, South Carolina Conference; and Rev. Albert
Maggard, Great Plains Conference. Individual sessions were held on how to collect
materials for an archives and proper approaches to cataloging and preserving holdings in a
special collection. A panel composed of the organizers and Ms. Kate McKinn, Archivist of
the David DuPlessis Archive at Fuller Theological Seminary, fielded a wide range of
questions from participants. The day ended with a tour of the vault, study area and museum
all newly renovated at a cost of $1 million.

A major portion of the unique W. Eddie Morris Collection is now (1998)
available at the IPHC Archives and Research Center. Click here for
more details. Much thanks to Mrs. Daisy Morris and Dr. Daniel Woods.

On October 29, 1997, it was announced to the GBA
that there will be two national celebrations in 1998. One was held October 14 in Oklahoma
City, the other in Falcon, NC from November 22-24 in conjunction with the annual Harvest
Train. Using the theme "Celebrate the Past - Seize the Future," the official
logo is available for download at the IPHC web site.

Click for some ideas to help local churches
celebrate the 1998 IPHC Centennial. Your input is also requested.

Among our holdings that are being featured during
the centennial are: Blood and Fire - Fire-Baptized Holiness hymnal, c. 1895; The
Guide - Fire-Baptized Holiness orphanage in Oklahoma City, publication started in
1897; Live Coals of Fire - Fire-Baptized Holiness paper edited by B.H. Irwin,
1899-1900; Tracts by B.H. Irwin - c. 1895. Please help us locate more rare
documents.

The Twenty-Seventh Quadrennial General Council of theFire-Baptized Holiness Church of God
of the Americas, a sister church of the International Pentecostal Holiness
Church, was held June 9-15, 1998 at 901 Bishop W.E. Fuller, Sr. Highway, Greenville, South
Carolina. Presiding at the General Council was Bishop W.E. Fuller, Jr, son of founding
Bishop W.E. Fuller, Sr., who served as Assistant General Overseer to Fire-Baptized
Holiness Church General Overseer J.H. King in 1905. Bishop James D. Leggett and Dr.
Harold D. Hunter were warmly received for the FBHCGACentennial Celebration on June
11. A warm welcome was likewise extended to Dr. Vinson Synan who participated in a drama
on the evening of June 12.

Rev. Carl J. Sexton, Conference Archivist for the Upper South Carolina
Conference, publishes a regular column in The Tidings under the title
"Archives Corner." View his February piece on Bishop W.E. Fuller, Sr.
Additional information about Bishop Fuller may be found in "Centennial Moments:
William Edward Fuller" by Dr. Vinson Synan in Issachar File (March 1998).

Mr. Dillard Wood reports that the Pentecostal Fire-Baptized Holiness
Church celebrated her centennial on August 1. The meeting convened at the PFBHC South
Carolina Camp Grounds near Westminster, SC. The opening session began at 10am and
continued through the evening. Former moderators and the present general moderator
participated in the program. Other speakers included Clifton Irwin, Dillard Wood and Bill
Preskitt.

If anyone has information about the possible relation between the IPHC
and Pentecostal Holiness Churches, Inc., led by Presiding Bishop MacDaniel Preston, please
contact us at 405-787-7110 and ask for Melissa Peters or Dr. Harold Hunter.

FALCON HEIRLOOM COVERLET: This beautiful centennial
coverlet was commissioned by the Culbreth Memorial Church (Falcon, NC) and created by We
Love Country. It is 100% cotton, two-layer, Jacquard woven in the U.S.A., preshrunk,
color fast, and machine washable. It measures approximately 46 x 68 inches and is fringed
on all four sides. Seven scenes from Falcon are featured. If interested, please contact
Mrs. Rose Nelson, PO Box 144, Falcon, NC 28342, 910-980-1162.

ATTENTION local church historians. We would like to
recommend a resource book to aid this ministry. Please consider "Strategies for
Writing Local Church Histories" by Dr. Joseph Byrd. Copies may be ordered from the Hal Bernard Dixon Pentecostal
Research Center. The cost is $8.00 a volume plus $3.00 postage.

The 1997 University of Mississippi doctoral dissertation by Dr. Daniel
Woods titled "Living in the Presence of God: Enthusiasm, Authority, and Negotiation
in the Practice of Pentecostal Holiness" may be ordered from ProQuest. The dissertation can be located
by executing a search with the author's name.

Rev. D. Chris Thompson put
together a seminar for local church historians in the North Carolina Conference. At least
100 persons turned up in Falcon, NC on March 28. Featured speakers were Dr. Harold D. Hunter, Director of IPHC Archives
& Research Center and Dr. Daniel Woods.

We are searching for pictures of B.H. Irwin.
Please let us know if you can help.

The Society for Pentecostal convened March 12-14, 1998 in Cleveland, TN.
Sessions included three papers on IPHC. The presenters were Rev. William Purinton, Dr. Dan
Woods, and Mr. Stan York. All three authors have utilized holdings at the IPHC Archives
& Research Center, in fact two traveled to Oklahoma City itself. Other participants
included Dr. Vinson Synan and Dr. Harold D. Hunter.